Devonshire House

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12-story English Tudor/Italianate residential building completed in 1928. Designed by Emery Roth as an apartment building, it is clad in reddish-brown brick, wrapping around a courtyard garden. The ground floor is lined with storefront with green canvas awnings along University Place, and clad in variegated brick with a base, upper band and accents of cobbled stone on East 10th Street. The ground floor is capped by a dentil course. There are two Gothic-arched doorways at the east end of the north facade, with a central main entrance that has a canvas canopy extending out to the sidewalk. Above this entrance are two stone pillars framing the pair of windows at the 2nd floor, and supporting an entablature with a rounded broken pediment that incorporates the crest of three stags within a shield supported by two standing stags of the Duke of Devonshire. A stone cornice tops the 2nd floor.

The north facade has two bays of triple-windows breaking the field of single windows everywhere else. These bays have small iron balconettes at the 8th & 10th floors, and projecting stone balconies at the 11th floor; above these balconies the bays are clad in yellow terra-cotta with rope moldings and paneled spandrels. At the top floor, these bays break the modillioned roof cornice with circular windows topped by swirling terra-cotta forms.

The west elevation has three triple-window bays, also with wrought-iron balconettes at the 6th, 8th & 10th floors. The center bay has stone and terra-cotta framing at the 2nd floor, with more elaborate decoration on the 3rd floor, and a cartouche above the 4th and below the top floor. The outer two triple-bays are similar at the upper floors to those on East 10th. The single end bays have stone enframements at each floor, with iron balconettes and elaborate terra-cotta detailing at the 3rd floor. There is a very noticeable, slighty-set back 2-story corner tower above the roof cornice, enclosing a water tank. It has similar brick and terra-cotta decoration, topped with a crenelated parapet.

Devonshire House has 131 residential units, converted from rental apartments to condominiums in 2009. The ground floor is occupied by B. & S. Zeeman Wines & Liquors, Bagel Bob's, La Petite Coquette, The Little Flirt.com lingerie, Sunshine Cleaners, Devonshire Optical, University Floral Design, and Deka jewelry.